Sunday, 24 December 2017

24th December 0 Hut 395

Christmas Eve is here along with our biggest crowd and a special piece of art in hut 395.

The Beyond team always keep Christmas Eve for ourselves as we like to create some art as part of an evening schedule that includes carol singing, a reading and some prayers that all follows a similar theme.

The theme tonight was birth and new life as we are on the eve of Jesus' birthday. The hut contained a large projection of an image of the expectant Mary beautifully rendered in a modern icon style.

Through the wonders of modern technology we were able to see into her womb and watch an ultrasound of her baby as he wriggled and moved around.

This image was surrounded with garlands of flowers and at the foot of the hut were hundreds of daffodil buds. These were there to remind us of new life and everyone was encouraged to take a flower with them and put it in water as it will then burst into life tomorrow.

The whole thing was accompanied by a heartbeat soundtrack when we weren't singing carols. All the carols we sang focussed on Jesus' birth and we read the account of his birth in the second chapter of the gospel of Luke.

This felt like a fitting climax to our tenth Beach Hut Advent Calendar as we look forward to the birth of Jesus tomorrow. We wish you all a blessed Christmas and pray that you will experience the new life that comes from knowing Jesus.